Set in the 2080s, this Australian debut maps the sci-fi question in a quiet, romantic drama – asking what ties us to the world and each other
Grace Chan’s debut novel Every Version of You is laden with a feeling of precipice and inevitability, a quiet doom.Grace Chan’s debut novel Every Version of You is laden with a feeling of precipice and inevitability, a quiet doom.Melbourne
in the late 2080s. The planet is, to not put too fine a point on it, “spent”. Most people who can afford it spend their mornings climbing into gel-filled pods to log into a fun, more beautiful edition of Earth called Gaia, where advanced coding offers the sensation of taste, smell and even touch.
Is her reluctance just nostalgia? What, exactly, is she worried about leaving behind? In digitalising the mind-body problem, Every Version of You transposes it into a literal and very material question:, EM Forster comes at this question from the other side:woman lives contentedly in her small pod below the earth, washed, dried and fed while she swaps “elevated” ideas with like minds in other pods around the world. All her needs are met by the Machine.
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